Button-fastener.



'J. A. T. REYMOND.

BUTTONIASTENER. APPLIOATION FILED MAILZI, 1910. RENEWED MAR. 28. 1913.

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JOHN ALBERT TELL REYIVIOND, or OTTAWA, ONTARIO, CANADA.

BUTTON -FASTE1\TER.

Application filed March 21, 1910, Serial NO. 550,813. Renewed March 28,1913.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6,1913.

Serial No. 757,484.

To all whom 2'25 may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN ALBERT TELL REYMOND, of Ottawa, in the Provinceof Ontario, Canada, a subject of the King of Great Britain, haveinvented certain new and useful Improvements in Button-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in button fasteners and the objectsof my invention are to provide simple and effective means for attachingbuttons Or for retaining two parts of a separable button together.

The particular objects are to provide an improved form of locking meanswhich comprises a shank, a slidable plate having slots with enlargedportions adapted to engage the reduced portions 011 the shank of thebutton.

Other objects are to provide an improved form of shank having improvedmeans for attaching to the head of the button and to this end itcomprises a staple member having parallel shanks adapted to extendthrough certain of the apertures in the button, provided with hookmembers adapted to extend into the other apertures of the button.

Further objects still are to provide means for taking up the slack inthe shank of the button and also to form a flexible neck on the shankand this part of the invention is accomplished by the provision of aspiral spring around the shank, these and other details of the inventionbeing all more fully set forth and described in the accompanyingspecification and drawings.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of the button and fastener inassembled position. Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the fasteningmembers with looking plate thereon. Fig. 3 is a sec tional view throughthe fastening member taken through the shank member. Fig. 4 is aperspective view of the shank member. Fig. 5 is a perspective view ofthe base member. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of the slidable lockingplate. Fig. 7 is a sectional view through the assembled button. Fig. 8is a perspective view of the cover member.

In the drawings like figures of reference indicate corresponding partsin each figure.

Referring to the drawings A represents the head of the button which maybe of any suitable form or which might be one part of a separablebutton, such as a stud.

13 represents the shank member which, in

accordance with the present invention, is made in the form of a staplehaving parallel shanks 10 and 11 adapted to extend through two of theapertures in the button, while hook members 12 and 13 are rigidlysecured to the top of the staple and adapted to enter the remainingapertures in the shank, as shown in Fig. 7. The ends of the shanks l0and 11 are pointed and provided a short distance from the end withannular grooves 14 and 15 adapted to form engaging means for the lockingplate, as hereinafter described.

G represents the fastening member comprising a base plate 16, covermember 17, and a slidable locking plate 18. The slidable locking plateis formed with three slots 19, and 21, the center slot being the guideslot, while the other slots 19 and 21 are adapted to receive the ends ofthe shanks and are provided with enlarged portions 22 through which theshanks may be inserted, ordinarily the width of the slots being onlysufficient to receive the reduced portions of the shanks at the grooves14 and 15. The slidable plate is held in position in the base member bymeans of tongues 23 and 24, struck up from the base member and turnedover the locking plate, and by an upwardly turned tongue 25 adapted tofit into the guiding slot 20 and thereby steady the locking plate insliding movement and limit the movement of the same. The cover member 17is more or less dome shaped in form and is provided at one side with acut awa portion 26 which is normally filled by a flange 27 on thelocking plate, said flange being adapted to be engaged by the thumb orfinger of the user desiring to unlock the shank.

To form a suitable flexible neck on the shank and also to take up anyslack between the head and the fastening member, a spiral spring 28 isprovided extending around the shank on the side of the cloth nearest thehead.

To attach the button in position, the shank is first inserted throughthe head, the spring is then placed on the shank, the shank is insertedthrough the cloth and into the slots in the locking member, the basemember 16 being provided with suitable perforations 29 and 30, throughwhich the shanks may extend. The locking plate is then slid inwardly,when the grooves 14 and 15 on the shanks will be engaged by the slots 19and 21 and the shank thus held firmly and rigidly in position.

As many changes could be made in the above construction and manyapparently widely different embodiments of my invention within the scopeof the claim, could be made without departing from the spirit or scopethereof, it is intended that all matter contained in the accompanyingspecification and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and notin a limiting sense.

What I claim as my invention is:

A device of the class described comprising a head having perforationstherethrough, a staple member provided with annular grooves, a baseplate formed with tongues struck up and turned over to form a guide Way,and a third tongue struck up in the plate and out of alinement with theother a sliding locking plate held be having a slot to re In witnesswhereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two witnesses.

JOHN ALBERT TELL REYMOND. Witnesses:

R-UssEL L SMART, M. Gnaznnrson.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. G.

said locking plate be-

